Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.